AT LEAST nine people have been killed after a dozen gunmen stormed into a bar and opened fire.
A manhunt has been launched to find the 12 suspects after they fled the scene in two cars after continuing to randomly shooting out on the street.
Another 10 civilians were injured in the shooting which happened at about 1am local time in South Africa on Sunday.
A police statement said attackers “opened fire at tavern patrons” once arriving in two vehicles in the town of Bekkersdal – 25 miles south-west of Johannesburg.
They continued to “shoot randomly as they fled the scene”.
It follows another mass shooting earlier this month, where at least 11 people were shot dead at a hostel near Pretoria.
A child was among the victims.
South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, at 45 people per 100,000 according to figures from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
